A Place for Hope in The “Last Stop” Indian

October 27, 2013 by hayakhan  
Published in Women

Discovered in the holy city of Vrindavan the first clinic created to help Indian widows.

The founder of “SOS Women” Diana Ros

It happens that sometimes in the middle of the most austere and complicated panorama, comes a story of those who manage to make you smile, you can convince that if they fight, sometimes they reach high goals. This is what has happened in India, where widows today have a place to start to believe in their lives.

Specifically you have to go to the holy city of Vrindavan, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where about 30,000 to 40,000 Indian widows, considered by the Hindu belief a bad omen and a curse. This is where the first dispensary was born, thanks to the help of the Spanish organization ” SOS Woman “, which has struggled against bureaucratic impediments and others linked to a society deeply rooted in religion, besides the fact that the person who is behind this initiative, Diana Ros, is foreign woman.

“Although India is the largest democracy in the world and has among the most advanced laws, the custom is very religious and a holy city as Vrindaban. Needless to say that this comes down to sexism and preconceptions towards Western women, so I had to learn the long way all their customs,
So with much effort, the founder of “SOS Women ‘got the October 1, 2013 to complete the bureaucratic steps and, more importantly, gain a foothold in the Indian society. “One afternoon I was called because the owner of the ashrams (religious centers where they pray widows) wanted to meet” the woman that helps. ” When we sat face to face and was able to explain my intentions and projects, put his hand on my forehead and blessed me. That was the real beginning of my success. As I explained my Indian staff, without that blessing could never have gotten to where I am now. After the blessing, other powerful political and blessed me almost forced by the fact that he had already blessed with this man “, says Ros.

Stripped of his life

This city in which Diana has opened his small clinic, Vridaban, is sacred because it is where it is believed that Lord Krishna was born. It is located on the banks of Yamuna River, a tributary of the Ganges. This is where widows traveling all over India to await death, that Krishna released their karma so you can enter nirvana, where no one can tear them already. Diana Ros Hence Vridaban concerns as “the last stop”. It is, therefore, expect where the end of his life, a life that believe that no longer makes sense because after the death of their husbands are stripped of all their possessions and disowned by their families.

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